Patricia Mou

This means not waiting to find your story arc, but rather recognizing that there are stories that pop up which you can opt into if you recognize them and have the right skills and virtues.

More tools give you negative utility. They won't make the work go faster. But they will consume as much time as you are willing to waste.

4. High Tolerance for Failure. You will fail. Embrace it. Learn to fail smart and fast.

Happiness is not determined by objective factors, but by how you feel about them.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Money was supposed to provide safety. Instead, an obsession with money made me feel anxious and inadequate...   I was also setting myself up to feel miserable. Because, frankly, I haven’t been very good at money—at making it, compounding it, keeping track of it, and protecting it. Using money as a scorecard was bound to lead to perpetual... See more

 Ignore what others may be thinking of you, because they aren’t.